The text was initially prepared by a committee of stem cell scientists appointed by the government, and this committee's version
included research on stem cells from all legal sources.
That prospect has been the subject of several congressional hearings since 2001 when President Bush restricted federal funding
for research on stem cells derived from embryos.
While the Dickey Amendment prohibits NIH funds from being used to derive stems cells from human embryos (hence destroying them), the newly published guidelines do permit the use of federal tax dollars for
research on stem cell lines already derived from human embryos, provided that (within the restrictions outlined in the guidelines) the embryos have already been destroyed.
The Swiss Parliament is considering the possibility of allowing
research on stem cells derived from stored embryos remaining at the end of assisted reproduction procedures if they were frozen at seven or fewer days of development.
But the country's Ministry of Health and Welfare is now expanding its support for
clinical research on stem cells, with the money being used to link basic research to intermediate or clinical studies.
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The DFL - sponsored bill would affirm the right for scientists to
conduct research on stem cells derived from embryos under limits spelled out in the legislation.
That bill, based on one from Rep. Diana DeGette, D - Colo., would have allowed federal dollars to flow
toward research on stem cell lines using embryos left over from in vitro fertilization, slated for disposal and donated by the parents.
«Because we live in a democratic country with a long and proud history of openness and freedom, we wish to personally support the
important research on stem cells in the face of the political restrictions placed on it by both the federal and state governments,» the Alperns say.
Dong Wook Han, a professor of stem - cell biology at Konkuk University in Seoul, is worried about how the country regulates
clinical research on stem cells.
The workshop will
include research on stem cells and aging, implications of aging on immune function (immunosenescence, immune reconstitution), thrombosis and aging, and correlates of frailty in hematology.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today released draft guidelines that permit federal funding
for research on stem cells from human embryos set to be discarded by fertility clinics.
Wince - Smith recalled a talk in Kyoto, Japan last year where Shinya Yamanaka, a winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for
his research on stem cells, paid tribute to the vitality of the American scientific and technical environment.
For while the new NIH guidelines explicitly permit funding for
research on stem cell lines in which human embryos have already been destroyed, they also explicitly forbid funding for research on stem cell lines that have been produced by SCNT (see section V. part B).
Research on stem cells is advancing with giant steps.
Scientists at Swedish universities will be receiving international support for
their research on stem cells.
On November 2, 2004, voters in California approved Proposition 71, which allows the state to borrow $ 3 billion for
research on stem cells.